by #MatthewDelmont in #MotherJones:

"Of 67,000 mortgages insured by the VA in the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs that year, fewer than 100 went to nonwhites. Nationally, by 1950, white veterans had received nearly 98 percent of the VA-guaranteed loans."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/black-world-war-wwii-veterans-denied-gi-bill-restoration-act-benefits-half-american-matthew-delmont/

#veterans #VeteransAffairs #racism #GIBenefits #GIBill #mortgages #NewYork #NewJersey

@Perl
Recruiter asked me to share: OO #Perl w/ #PostgreSQL & #Bootstrap.js remote #job w/ VA.gov creating an end‐to‐end management perspective to ensure compliance & oversight of #GIbill programs

Required:
US citizenship/Green Card
5 yrs analyzing customer needs & developing overall concept & design objectives
Engineering or related scientific/tech bachelor’s
Preferred: #SpringBoot, #microservices

Contact Jeff Moore @ 201-645-3370 or jeff.moore@cdatainc.com for immediate interview

How Military Veterans Can Protect Themselves From Online Scams #GIBill #Veterans #JointServicesTranscript #VABenefits #VSO #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Phishing #SocialEngineering - https://youtu.be/V_BcT9qcABU

https://shiradest.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/not-everyone-got-the-gi-bill-but-we-can-repair-past-wrongs/

#ProjectDoBetter
#GIBill
#reparations
#DoubleVcampaign
#BlackHistory

Sweet Gov freebies for veterans and/or adjacent:

- Free LinkedIn Premium account
- Free premium Coursera account
- VetTec "boot camps"
- VR&E (Vocational Rehab) if you have GI Bill time left
- With GI Bill and VR&E, you could get your masters
- VetTec can get you training for certs and job placement
- GI Bill can reimburse testing costs.

This is just stuff I actively engaged with today. Please add to the list. Would love to hear from other vets who have been successful in #cyber and #infosec.
#veterans #cyber #infosec #hacking #getpaid #gibill

I just learned today that eligible veterans can get a FREE LinkedIn Premium account. I can't link the newsletter directly, but trust me, this is actually a big deal whether you are career pivoting or just need to up your networking game.
#gibill #vettec #veterans #cybersecurity #infosec
https://www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/how-to-use-benefits/vettec-high-tech-program/

@conradhackett That puts things into perspective. When I finished college in the late '70s with help from my #GIBill and a job in the #Physics Dept, I was making about $10K/year. My first job in engineering paid $19K and I felt I was doing OK. In retrospect, I guess I was.

Serving those #GIBill benefits decades later. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1129753937/the-gi-bill-left-behind-black-world-war-ii-vets-now-theres-a-move-to-fix-that